Authors
Elisabeth Isenring, Giordana Cross, Lynne Daniels, Elizabeth Kellett, Bogda Koczwara
Publication date
2006/11
Journal
Supportive care in cancer
Volume
14
Pages
1152-1156
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Description
Goals of work
To determine the relative validity of the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) compared with a full nutrition assessment by the scored Patient Generated-Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) and to assess MST inter-rater reliability in patients receiving chemotherapy.
Patients and methods
An observational, cross-sectional study was conducted at an Australian public hospital in 50 oncology outpatients receiving chemotherapy. Inter-rater reliability was assessed in a subsample of 20 patients.
Main results
According to PG-SGA global rating, the prevalence of malnutrition was 26%. The MST was a strong predictor of nutritional risk relative to the PG-SGA (100% sensitivity, 92% specificity, 0.8 positive predictive value, 1.0 negative predictive value). MST inter-rater reliability was acceptable with agreement by …
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Scholar articles
E Isenring, G Cross, L Daniels, E Kellett, B Koczwara - Supportive care in cancer, 2006